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I am building a desktop application using VS2010 C#. I plan to design and implement my own ribbon and redesign other UI controls graphically. Would Expression Studio/Blend be useful for my purpose? I have not used the software and from the web it says it's mainly for Web.

Vadim Kotov
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Expression Web is for web design. Expression Blend is for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight. If you want to use Windows Forms then you have to either do it all by hand or use the Visual Studio 2010 designer but if you want to use WPF then Blend is the way to go.

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    The design surface tooling in Visual Studio 2010 is significantly better than it was in 2008 so I wouldn't say Blend is always the way to go for WPF dev as it's quite a steep learning curve. To the OP, unless you're doing this as a learning exercise I'd STRONGLY recommend you look to the third party market for a ribbon before designing your own. – Darren Lewis Feb 28 '11 at 16:49